Speech and Language Therapy BCHC

Our amazing Terry has been achieving some functional goals recently and wanted to share! - handwriting a birthday card for his niece, and joining the OT gardening club! #AdultRehabilitationBCHC #MDT #Neurorehab

Our brilliant Children's Dysphagia team presented at the West Midlands Neurodisability Study Day to Paediatricians and other professionals about MDT management of eating, drinking and swallowing 💪 Well done team!

#ChildSLTBCHC #ChildBCHC

Last month was #AphasiaAwarenessMonth - thank you to our lovely Stroke rehab SLT's and Apprentice for your work involving patients (‪@rockingaphasia.com‬) and raising the profile to staff in the hospital of what we do! 🗣️ #AdultRehabilitationBCHC

Thank you for coming along with me on my day!👋😊

Before I head off home, I have my weekly supervision session with my Practice Educator. Here we discuss my health and wellbeing🌿, discuss anything I am having difficulty with and also discuss our achievements 🏆🎉 e.g. I officially submitted my last assignment📄🖊️!!

To finish off we have the SLT "case reviews" meeting. We discuss our caseloads, review long and short term goals, discuss current Dysphagia recommendations and Communication diagnoses and share any ideas on management of patients. 📈🤓

Then time for my own lunch, catching up with my peer Naz, and getting started on session planning for the next day. Tasks I've prepped:
Reading and comprehension 📖
Sequencing tasks 🔢➡️
Writing tasks✍️
#MySLTDay

Lunchtime was busy! I did a mealtime observation with a dysphagic patient - picking out a Level 5 Minced and Moist meal to assess them with and practiced using thickener to make a Level 2 Mildly Thick Orange Squash. Lots of IDDSI learning 🍲🥛🍽️

Now time for some admin...writing case notes and completing sections in a discharge report for one of the patients on my caseload ✍️📝

Our SLTA is setting up for communication group. I am joining to observe one of my clients to see their communication skills in a group setting 👥. Today’s activity is Guess the Occupation 💼

Come with me to our first patient in the sunny therapy garden 🌳- we have a few tasks lined up:🎯
Orientation Tasks 🧠
Using family pictures to assess yes/no ✔️🚫reliability and cognition
Match spoken word to object 👄
Match written word to object 📖

First up is the 8:30am morning huddle with the PT🧘‍💪, OT🧩🖐️and SLT🗣️👂 teams. We discuss the patients and how they were overnight. This helps me to prioritise patients accordingly. We also announce any groups we are running. Today we have communication group!

I like to start my day with a hot pot of porridge oats in the hospital cafeteria and plan my day 🍚🕒📅

Hi everyone! My name is Gaby. Come with me as I show you a typical day at Moseley Hall Hospital 🧠 💡👩‍ #MySLTDay

Let's hear from Gaby - a 3rd year Speech and Language Therapy Student for a #Dayinthelife on the Inpatient Neurological Rehabilitation Unit (INRU) 🧠

The #AdultRehabilitationBCHC teams based at Moseley Hall Hospital have been lucky to host 2 fab BCU students over the last few months. They have had experience on INRU, the Outpatient Brain Injury unit Moor green, the Stroke rehab wards and the Older adults wards! 🧠👅🗣️

Our teams include #AdultRehabilitationBCHC (across inpatient and community settings), #ChildBCHC and #LDBCHC!

Hi Bluesky! Welcome to the shared page for Speech and Language Therapy teams across Birmingham Community NHS Foundation Trust 👋